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Happy Pride Month! In its honor, I will be answering an ask that I have had sitting in my box for a couple of months concerning LGBT representation in the series over the years. Anon, don’t worry- I haven’t forgotten about you.
The history of LGBT representation in The Sims is not as straightforward as it may seem. In the original game, gender preference is not a feature, meaning that all sims behave as bisexual in game. As a result, identical sex relationships are achievable, but such couples cannot get married, though they are able to transfer in together and adopt children.
In The Sim 2, some progress is made; same sex couples are allowed to enter into committed relationships, and the very first premade LGBT characters are introduced. Marriage is not available to same sex couples. Instead, they can enter into joined unions, which are likely based off of the civil unions that were legal only in some US states at the time of the game’s release. The joined unions as presented in the game are understandably controversial, and the wants for
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Gay jokes in fiction usually amount to this formula: one character says something that can also be interpreted as incredibly gay without realizing it and everyone looks shocked at him. The humour comes from the fact that this often happens in real life due to how far down the gutter our minds have gotten (everything can be construed as gay innuendo these days) and that these jokes in fiction capture those isolated moments of hilarity. The problem is they usually aren’t funny because of the fakeness of it all. It just comes off as manufactured and forced most of the time and the humour dies as a result. Every other sentence out of Alan Harper’s mouth on Two and a Half Men these days is a gay double entendre and it fails to crack even a grin from me. Yes, jokes like that tend to have no effect, except of course in the case of Arrested Development’s Tobias Fünke.
Say hello to the funniest character on one of the funniest sitcoms in TV history. Tobias is a former professional twice over: an analyst and a therapist, but now he exists as an aspiring ac
Living… with his wife Lindsay, daughter Maeby, brother-in-law Michael and the rest of their extended family in Southern California. Tobias and his wife left Massachusetts after Tobias lost his medical license and decided to become an actor. Now he’s come to the City of Dreams to make it big.
Profession… a former doctor, now a struggling actor looking for odd jobs. He was a psychiatry resident at Mass General hospital for two years, but he recently lost his medical license for, as the show’ unseen narrator explained, “administering CPR to a person who, as it turned out, was not having a heart attack.”
Interests… theatre, both acting and directing. Only a few months in town and he’s already got his first directing career, overseeing the play at his daughter’s high institution. Thank God he got word of the production – they were about to let a P.E. teacher direct it! Now he might even be able to get himself a speaking role.
Relationship Status… in a strained marriage, strained in large part because his wife is convinced he’s gay. His self-help book, “The Noun Inside Me,” was a grea
James Is Gay:
A Treatise
Sexual orientation should not specify a person any more than any other single inherent trait, such as race, gender, or ethnicity. However, in the world of one-dimensional television characters, it is often easiest to get cheap laughs from the low-hanging fruit of stereotypical comedy. Accept CBS’ The Big Bang Theory, for example. Most of the humor in the show is based on pigeonholing the characters into specific subgroups and then repeatedly and effectively bashing the audience over the head with one stereotype after another – Leonard is an awkward nerd (as are all of his friends), Sheldon has Asperger’s, Penny is a dumb blonde, Howard is Jewish, Raj is both Indian AND effeminate, etc. So while it is important to mention that in real life, homosexuality is not the be-all-end-all of a gay person’s existence, in the realm of comedy, it can be (and often is) the basis for all of the humor. It is also adj to note that gay-based humor is not the same as gay bashing. While stereotypical humor is often the lowest-common-denominator, it is not the equal a